generally accepted that smoking is bad for health. However‚ it is pity that rather than putting a ban on it. The government instead is imposing even higher taxes on it. This is simply because first of all banning tobacco‚ cigarettes would mean that these products will also lead to a loss of revenue in form of Excise duty and VAT tax for the government‚ and unemployment for lakhs. Taking the case of a reputed Indian company ITC‚ ITC is responsible for selling about 82% of cigarettes available in the country
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live with serious smoke-related health complications (Smoking and Tobacco Use‚ CDC 2015). There are many factors that shape smoking to be unhealthy‚ but why are people still choosing to do it…especially the youth? Does the youth know/understand these factors that make smoking so unhealthy? It is good that people are trying to form alternatives of smoking‚ but looking into these alternatives‚ it has been proven to be almost as bad as just smoking. To get rid of these questions completely‚ kids need
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incidence‚ and risk factors Lung cancer is the deadliest type of cancer for both men and women. Each year‚ more people die of lung cancer than of breast‚ colon‚ and prostate cancers combined. Lung cancer is more common in older adults. It is rare in people under age 45. Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer. The more cigarettes you smoke per day and the earlier you started smoking‚ the greater your risk for lung cancer. There is no evidence that smoking low-tar cigarettes lowers the
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WHY QUIT SMOKING? Abstract Smoking cigarette creates major health‚ finance‚ and self-esteem problems. It is a major cause and death and illness to a human body organ. Quit smoking cigarette can stop or lower the risk of many human illnesses and conditions. Why Quit Smoking Cigarettes Cigarette smoking burns up your money (Rawlinson‚ 2013). Just imagine setting a fire and burning $2‚000 every year. It harms every organ in your body. Quitting smoking
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Smoking Cessation Introduction First to understand smoking cessation we must understand what cigarettes and what smoking them entail. A cigarette contains many harmful compounds; the smoke alone from a cigarette contains over 4000 chemicals‚ 43 of which are known carcinogens. Smoking is estimated to be the cause of approximately 7‚ 000 deaths in Ireland each year. Around 30% of all cancer deaths are caused by smoking and smoking causes illnesses such as lung cancer‚ heart disease‚ stroke and
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Implementation of no smoking policy in Olivarez College Tagaytay and other hazards of smoking. CHAPTER ONE Introduction A. Background of the Study Smoking is one of the causes of the death of many Filipino. It gives different smoking-related diseases. On a daily basis‚ 240 Filipinos die because of these smoking-related diseases such as heart failure‚ stroke‚ chronic obstructive pulmonary disease‚ peripheral vascular disease and many cancers. This accounts for 87‚600 deaths due to smoking-related diseases
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most likely to begin smoking -- young teenagers -- is also one of the most susceptible to peer pressure. The awkward years between pure‚ dependent-on-parents childhood and independent young adulthood are marked for many by frustration and insecurity as status‚ family roles and physical changes happen in a hormone-addled flood. Quite often‚ this is the time of life when young people rely most heavily on friends of the same age for social support and affirmation. Enter cigarettes. If a child in a social
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Would you risk your life for one of your addictions? Even though we know more about the dangers of smoking‚ it sill haunts society. Not only does smoking have many dangers‚ physical outcomes‚ and costs‚ but also there are also many positive steps to combat this tribal habit. Some dangers of smoking are minor outcomes such as: problems breathing‚ wrinkles‚ and bad smelling clothes‚ hair‚ skin changes to yellowish color from the toxins in cigarettes. Major outcomes from smoking are risks of catching
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is someone smoking a cigarette. Someone that is lowering their chances to live‚ taking a risk of cancer‚ and sometimes even lessening the time spent with their children‚ because smoking does kill. Nobody wants to get that news saying “you have throat cancer” or even worse “you have lung cancer”‚ regardless it will kill you in the end. So why are people so worried about telling other people not to try it and hiding it from their kids‚ when they should be ones fixing themselves? Smoking is one of the
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INTRODUCTION Smoking is a practice in which a substance‚ most commonly tobacco or cannabis‚ is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration for recreational drug use‚ as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them available for absorption through the lungs. The most common method of smoking today is through cigarettes‚ primarily industrially manufactured but also hand-rolled from loose tobacco and rolling
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